Summary: longtime
community leader who had been hospitalized in critical condition for nearly a
month from horrific head injuries she had received in a savage bear attack on
June 28, 2011 after being brutally mauled and scalped by a 250-pound male black
bear while walking her dog at the Pinetop Country Club's Sports Village area, in
which it became one of the first wild black-bear attack that has resulted in a
fatality ever in the recorded history of Arizona since 1990.